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  • Genealogical Goals

    Identify all 16 gggrandparents. (Only two left -- but they're going to be interesting, as paternal grandmother's father is not shown on her birth registration!)

    Prove the exact link between my ancestor Lott J TIERNEY (b. 1833, Ireland, d. 1915 Dayton, Ohio) and John J TIERNEY (b. 1863 Dysart, Clare, Ireland, d. 1914 Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts).

    Locate the TIERNEY townland in Dysart, Clare, Ireland

    Prove my lineage to pre-1861 Ohio to the standards of the Ohio Genealogical Society.

    Locate the Tipperary townland where the ARMSTRONG - CULLEN - KELLY - LEAHEY group originated.

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Archive for August 11th, 2009

Tombstone Tuesday: Eleanora Margaret (Nellie) TIERNEY MCKINNEY (1875-1973)

Posted by Ambar on 11th August 2009

Nellie Tierney McKinney's gravestone

McKinney, Nellie Tierney grave marker, Calvary Cemetery, Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, USA; photograph by Richard Holt, 7 Aug 2009. Digital copy privately held by Jean Marie Diaz, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Linden, California. 2009.

Nellie is the biological aunt and adoptive mother of my grandfather John Herbert TIERNEY, and the only great-grandparent I ever met.

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